INDIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 137 



Epiblem.1 ocladias, n. sp. 



$ $. 18 — 26 mm. Head white, sides of crown and a frontal bar black. 

 Palpi black, white above and at apex. Antennae blackish-grey. Thorax white, 

 shoulders and a posterior bar black. Abdomen grey, Forewings elongate, 

 rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost 

 straight, hardly oblique, rounded beneath ; white ; markings dark leaden- 

 fuscous, irregularly suffused or marked with black, sharply defined ; a zigzag 

 streak from base of costa through disc, angulated thrice downwards and twice 

 upwards, terminating on costa before apex ; in $ costal area as far as this 

 streak from base to beyond middle wholly blackish, in 9 wr *h a small wedge- 

 shaped black costal spot at J, and a larger subquadrate one beyond middle, 

 each preceded by a black strigula ; two posterior black costal strigula: : four 

 irregular dorsal spots, second sometimes connected with middle angle of median 

 streak ; an irregular spot near termen below middle, often confluent with me- 

 dian streak near its extremity : cilia white, beneath tornus blackish. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, lighter towards base ; cilia grey-whitish, with grey basal line. 



Seven specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in March, May, July, August, October 

 and November (de Mowbray, Pole, Green). 



Phaloniad^e. 



Meridarchis, Zell. 



This genus, founded by Zeller on the Indian trajjeziella, and attributed by 

 him to the Gelechiadce, is, I find, so close to Tribonica, Meyr,, that it will be 

 better at present to treat them as identical and sink the latter name, although it 

 is possible that the small structural differences existing may ultimately involve 

 their separation. The types of Meridarclds and Tribonica, and the two addi- 

 tional species now described, agree together, and are distinguished from all 

 nearly allied forms by the stalking of veins 8 and 9 of forewings. 



Meridarchis episacla, n. sp. 



£. 18 — 21mm. Head and thorax white, more or Jess tinged with ochreous. 

 Palpi porrected, dark fuscous, second joint mixed with white above. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, not dilated, ccsta arched 

 towards base, thence nearly straight, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, 

 oblique ; 3 and 4 separate ; white ; a black basal patch, edge parallel to 

 termen ; a black subdorsal acaletuft at ^ ; a trapezoidal black patch extending 

 along costa from g- to beyond f, rapidly narrowed downwards, reaching more 

 than half across wing, edged beneath with a few ochreous scales ; a black 

 strigula on dorsum at f, almost connected with costal patch ; a small blackish 

 costal spot at f, whence proceeds an undefined line of black and grey scales to 

 tornus ; a row of black dots round apex and termen : cilia whitish-grey- 

 ochreous. Hindwings pale grey ; beneath cell towards base a group of raised 

 black hair scales, partially covered by an expansible pencil of long ochreous. 

 whitish hairs from base ; cilia whitish-grey-ochreous. 



Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in October, December, and January 

 (de Mowbray). 

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